Halloween!

So, we’ve had monster tornadoes ravish the Midwest; four or five 500-year flooding events wash over the same Midwest and mid-Atlantic region; serial heat waves, each one toppling old records; droughts reducing the water basins; and of course, the usual fires burning the Pacific west. Now, hurricane season has come alive. I think it began…

“Climate change is a hoax!” That was belted out by one of the Republican presidential candidates, Vivek Ramaswamy. Of course, for those in the know, he is also behind the effort to bring corporations back to the Milton Friedman doctrine of profits only and shareholder primacy. He has been pushing hard against ESG and “woke”….

In my last post I mentioned that I was reading books on design which is something a little different, at least from this blog. So I thought I would write a quick post on why I’m reading about design. There are a lot of things that interest me but two areas that appears to catch…

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is here and according to IBM’s CEO, 100% of jobs will change over the next 10 years. She doesn’t say jobs will be eliminated; she says they will change. So we gotta get cracking on reskilling. The source of the change will be analytics and artificial intelligence – not a surprise…

Today, I’m going to talk about regression. No, not linear regression but people regression. Earlier in the year, I had trained someone to take over the Monday morning reporting so I could move on to other things. Well, last week she left for another job – a very good job, by the way, with some…